Thread:JayAaerow/@comment-6769189-20160603184312/@comment-7738747-20160626100228

It's more like this:

In a Praetorian Guarda fashion, Sparda ( and his followers) made Mundus Emperor as with Claudius. At that time Human world and Hell were one and the same, so Mundus already did whatever pleased him with humans( raping, torturing, eating human's flesh, etc), with Sparda's acceptance ( maybe even with his participation, who knows).

Only later, in a whim of a moment, Sparda decides he wants something different and turns against Mundus." Awoke to justice" is just human's point of view, since Sparda has no qualms against demons and he even let hell's gate intact, giving hints he liked to go to hell time to time.

It seems DmC story is quite closer to original than people thought